Melbourne’s Most Successful Fishing Charter

Unreel Fishing Charters is one of the most renowned and reliable fishing charters in Melbourne when it comes to catching fish.

We operate in and around Port Phillip Bay, Port Fairy, Western Port Bay and Portland, consistently providing our clients the best fishing Victoria has to offer.

Our focus at Unreel Fishing Charters is all about catching fish because that is what we do best. Our commitment to our customers is to maintain affordable rates, whilst delivering the best fishing available in our waters.

We are a no frills operation and we operate on the good old fashioned principles of hard work, honesty and friendship. We have a reputation for going further, staying longer and trying harder to make sure that we catch our target fish for our customers.

Our passion for fishing

It has been our lifetime passion fishing these waters and it would be our greatest pleasure to show you how we find fish in them.

Our snapper charters are undoubtedly the most popular, but both our vessels are set up to cater for the wide range of fish that are available in our Melbourne bays: the Port Phillip Bay Snapper (Big Red Snapper), Western Port Gummy Shark, Portland Southern Bluefin Tuna, King George Whiting, Southern Calamari and every other quality local table fish.

Our fantastic results

Our results speak for themselves—we invite you to browse our website and click onto the Facebook icon to check our gallery of photos that are updated daily. To keep updated with our crew and their successes, join us on Facebook.

If you’re looking for the latest catches from our Skipper James Rogers, check out our reports to see what is biting, and access some helpful tips about fishing in Melbourne, Port Phillip Bay, Western Port Bay and other Victorian regions.

We have a passion for sharing the memorable experiences and thrills that we have in our very own backyard, so why not get involved with us and become a part of it.

Contact us to get on board!

For more information on our Melbourne charters, the team aboard our vessels and the services we offer, feel free to contact James or Nino today on 0416 139 814.

Snapper 2016

Big Red Port Phillip Bay Snapper will arrive in October and will be in very good numbers until at least late december. If you love snapper and want to catch some for yourself, Then don't wait till the last minute to book, as we can be very heavily booked during snapper season

Snapper

Come with us this season and catch some of Melbourne's famous big red snapper!

King George Whiting

King George Whiting are undoubtedly the most sought after fish in southern Australia mostly for their taste, but also for their great fighting ability, as well as the skill needed to be able to hook them. Whiting can be caught throughout the whole year.

Shark

Love a bit of real flake? Catch your own Gummy Shark or even a Mako Shark! If you have ever wanted to get one of these giants..... now is the time!

Bluefin Tuna

Southern Bluefin Tuna are one of the most challenging but exhilarating game fish available. The West coast of Victoria, Portland and Port Fairy boast one of the most reliable and incredible Southern Bluefin Tuna fisheries of anywhere in the world. Action is almost guaranteed! And the eating quality of these tuna is second to none.

Squid

Southern Calamari are fantastic fun to catch and sensational to eat! Anyone can catch them and most trips we get our quota or very close to it. Available all year!

Diving

We also offer diving weather and warm season pending and we can dive for you or you can dive with us. Either way on our diving trips we can target lobsters abalone scallops and many other tasty seafoods! We can also combine these trips as fishing and diving.

A glimpse at the kind of snapper fishing action that Unreel Fishing Charters offers in Victoria, Australia.

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What's Biting Now

CALAMARI; ARE ON FIRE

SPRING : september-october

Southern bluefin tuna were excellent again this season, the smaller 10-20 kg ones have moved on now and the "barrel" size ones 100 kg+ have begun to appear allthough not a sure thing it is a very high chance to hook one and do battle for as many hours as it takes to land it

CALAMARI

Winter is generally great for calamari, But this season is exceptional almost plague proportions. And we are catching a LOT, August - October is the time to catch really big ones, Which are also going very well

SNAPPER

We are fast approaching the new port phillip bay snapper season. there are starting to be a few big ones getting caught, And as usual the smaller ones are in very good numbers and are so much fun as we try and keep up with their ferocious bite on a lot of these cool evenings and mornings

KING GEORGE WHITING

The last few months have only been ok for king george whiting, We have Needed to work a little harder than ussual to get a feed of them, However with spring in the air they have begun to get better and the numbers are increasing allready

REEF FISHING

As usual the reefs have all got plenty of bluethroats and other wrasse, leatherjackets and the famous and delectable sweep. All are in great numbers however weather and swell will not allways be good at this time of year for us to target the sweep in very close to the shore

GUMMIES

Gummy shark is here all year ,however the warmer months are the most productive. December- April has been our favourite time